FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
When I was in the UK , ten years after my sister was there, none of the cars in her pictures were there, they were all gone!!! Yes the average car age has gone over 14 years here, but I'm stuffing up all the averages as all the utes here are double that and a bit more!No idea but when I was back in England last summer, all be it briefly, I was amazed at the number of new vehicles on the road and the low second hand price of older models. Higher end stuff too, Audi, Bmw, Range rovers etc.
Obviously not all farmers, mostly those pesky townies, but the country lanes seemed full of new pickups and Landrovers.
Is it just the salt that kills cars there these days? Sounds like leasing and contract hire is more popular there now.
I read somewhere the average age of the UK car fleet is around 7.5 years.
May be wrong but I think the average here is 14 years.